Travis Bettencourt
Pasco
Summary
10 years of operations experience, with expertise in safety and quality assurance. Proven track record in training and mentoring teams, enhancing productivity, and implementing effective lockout/tagout procedures. Skilled in managing complex mechanical systems and fostering a culture of excellence, ensuring compliance with stringent operational standards.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations Supervisor
Amentum
Richland
10.2023 - Current
- Successfully managed day-to-day operations of a large team, providing guidance and leadership to ensure efficient workflow
- Oversaw staff development, training and performance management
- Trained, coached and mentored team members to foster a highly productive work environment
- Assigned tasks according to individual abilities while motivating staff to reach goals within deadlines
- Conducted regular performance reviews and provided feedback to team members
- Met with staff to discuss procedure adherence, proper job-specific techniques, and performance
- Utilize knowledge and operation of remote/field/control room systems such as mechanical systems, pumps and fluid systems, electrical systems, cranes and hoists, process jumpers, remote waste handling equipment, power manipulators, and instrumentations, lifting hardware, etc
- And associated inspection requirements
- Support the Waste Treatment Plant Nuclear Safety Quality Culture by emphasizing the values of safety and quality in the performance of work in order to protect self, others, and the environment
- Perform Facility walkdowns to support operations, maintenance, and hazardous energy mitigation needs
- Represent Plant Operations for interfaces with other project organizations on issues affecting LOTO
Generator Mechanic
United States Army Reserve
Lakewood
05.2009 - 03.2024
- Perform work designated by monthly and quarterly preventative maintenance procedures
- Troubleshoot issue with generators or equipment
- Understand and evaluate equipment needs for designated generators
- Knowledge of 2kw - 30kw military generators
- Maintain various vehicles including 2.5-ton and 5-ton trucks
Commissioning Technician
Waste Treatment Completion Company
Richland
12.2019 - 10.2023
- Expertise in major plant turnarounds, to include shutdowns, cleanup, lock-out/tag-out, and startups
- Operate and monitor pumps, levels, pressures differential pressures and differential temperatures
- Experience in operating Transformers, Generators, Switchgears, UPS systems, ATS units, Chillers/Compressors and Air handling units
- Complied with arc flash protection procedures when resetting tripped electrical relays, switching, or racking out breakers
- Isolated equipment from all energy sources by identifying proper equipment and corresponding valves, breakers, switches
- Hung lockout/tag-out tags at boundary points following company procedure to ensure safety of personnel and equipment
- Wrote, reviewed, and validated procedures implemented in operating procedures
- Logged detailed and accurate reports for plant status and issues throughout shift for proper shift change
- Diagnosed and recognized areas where safety could be improved
- Wrote CR's to correct unsafe conditions as a member of an area safety team
Ordnance Technician
AECOM
Pueblo
01.2016 - 11.2019
- Responsible for the transfer of munitions to munition feed area utilizing lift assists and appropriate material handling equipment
- Provide security to Modified Ammunition Vehicle unloading dock doorway into MSM corridor and ERB exclusion areas
- Oversee loading of pallets of energetic waste onto transportation vehicles for off-site disposal
- Unpack boxed, palletized munitions, stage munitions, and process the dunnage per procedure
- Always support surety requirement for two-person rule as well as maintaining cleanliness of feed area
- Scribe for Operation personnel logging entries and munitions destroyed as required by standard operating procedures
- Monitor facility equipment ensuring proper operation as well as correcting housekeeping and material conditions
- Inspect and don chemical processing equipment to include PPE, full-face respirators, to include demilitarized protective ensemble
- Perform maintenance activities as well as waste handling operations during Level A and C toxic area entries
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Finance
University of Phoenix
01.2015
Skills
- Safety
- Lockout/Tagout
- P&IDs
- Water purification
- Wastewater Processing Expertise
- Compressor operations
- Chiller operations
- Electrical switching procedures
- Nuclear Process Equipment Management
- Chemical ensembles
- Full-face respirators
- Experienced with OSHA Level A Suit Protocols
- Construction
- Quality assurance
- Procedural adherence
- DOE-0336 Lockout/Tagout program
Timeline
Operations Supervisor
Amentum
10.2023 - Current
Commissioning Technician
Waste Treatment Completion Company
12.2019 - 10.2023
Ordnance Technician
AECOM
01.2016 - 11.2019
Generator Mechanic
United States Army Reserve
05.2009 - 03.2024
Bachelor of Science - Business Finance
University of Phoenix
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